Family Portrait sessions are always a lot of fun and the session I did with the Bowie’s at their cottage property on Mckeller Lake in October was no exception.

Jaylyn had contacted me several months earlier and we made arrangement to do a session with her two brothers, mom, dad, and grandmother on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend.  I had already scheduled another session for earlier that same day, with a large family group on an island several km out from Pointe au Baril, so we arranged to do the Bowie family shoot in the early afternoon.

We started with Gran and as I was setting up the shot with her she told me the last time she had a professional photograph taken was when she was married, so she was more than a bit nervous.  While I asked her about her wedding photos I could see her begin to relaxed so I kept talking with her while shooting to try to keep her at ease.  It seemed to work and soon Jaylyn and her brothers joined in for some shots with Gram. Then we moved on, adding mom and dad into the mix before moving into singles.

After we had worked the shoreline getting some shots of  mom, dad,  Jayln and her brothers we decided to head down the road to a small dam that Jaylnn and her mom had scouted out earlier.  It offered a some interesting backdrop options and we did another series of images there, including some of Jayln and her partner.

On a recent trip from Cambridge to do some portrait sessions in the Parry Sound area I stopped of in Aurora to meet with mom and deliver several enlargements and an extra large,  specially mounted print, of mom, dad, and the three adult children.  Mom tells me she intends put it in the cottage living room.